Lawrence H. White

Dr. Lawrence H. White is a Distinguished Senior Fellow with the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, and a Retired Faculty member at George Mason University.

He holds a PhD in  Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and an AB from Harvard University. Formerly, he was the F.A. Hayek Professor of Economic History in the Department of Economics at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, a Visiting Professor at the Queen's School of Management and Economics, Queen's University of Belfast, and a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

He is the author of numerous books, including Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin? (Cambridge University Press, 2023), The Theory of Monetary Institutions (Blackwell, 1999), Free Banking in Britain (2nd ed., IEA, 1995), and Competition and Currency (NYU Press, 1989). He is the editor of several works, including The History of Gold and Silver (3 vols., Pickering and Chatto, 2000), The Crisis in American Banking (NYU Press, 1993), African Finance: Research and Reform (ICS Press, 1993), and Free Banking (3 vols., Edward Elgar, 1993). 

His articles on monetary theory and banking history have appeared in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Literature, the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, and other leading professional journals. He is Co-Editor of Econ Journal Watch and the host of the bi-monthly podcast EJW Audio, where he interviews authors of recent EJW articles and related issues.

For further publications by White, visit his website.